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Speaker Margaret Arnolds at her inaugural Johannesburg council sitting.
Johannesburg speaker Margaret Arnolds had a baptism of fire last week as she presided over a boisterous council meeting - and now the controlling hand of the city's affairs must look ahead while at the same time managing an undercurrent of factionalism within her own party.
On Wednesday, an impromptu debate set the meeting back 45 minutes before councillors could get their teeth into the meat of the day. Arnolds asked the councillors if she was being initiated as she tried to keep order.
Thursday’s meeting was no better as an EFF councillor told an ActionSA councillor to "meet me outside" as he tore off his red jacket. This all over a debate on load shedding.
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